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Acedia: Its Evolution from Deadly Sin to Psychiatric Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Mark D. Altschule
Mark D. Altschule*
Affiliation:
The Laboratory of Clinical Physiology, McLean Hospital, Waverley, Mass
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Iohannes Cassianus, more commonly known as John Cassian, wrote his treatise De Institutis Coenobiorum et de Octo Principalium Vitiorum Remediis Libri XII around the beginning of the fifth century A.D. This work is important because it introduced certain Eastern ideas into Western thought. Some of these ideas are of considerable psychiatric interest.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 471 , February 1965 , pp. 117 - 119
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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